Scaling Cloud Resources
One of the most prominent reasons why organizations choose cloud solutions is scalability. You need to be able to pivot in response to demand and growth without worrying about hardware acquisitions and software licensing. Cloud services make this possible, but you could be spending more than you have to if you aren’t smart in your scaling.
Automation makes paying for only what you need possible, as your cloud resources scale directly in response to utilization and demand. You won’t have to budget for resources to buffer scaling, as scaling is handled via automation in real time. You can maintain availability during peak use without paying extra during slower periods.
Continuous Cost Optimization
Optimizing cloud costs is an essential part of FinOps. However, it shouldn’t be seen as a project to tackle every quarter, month, or week. Instead, automation enables continuous cost optimization that ensures you’re always making the most of your cloud resources without breaking your budget. Automation can continuously evaluate your resource use and pricing and make changes to optimize them in real time.
Automation can significantly reduce the workload required for effective cloud cost optimization. Instead of relying on your team to carefully categorize resources, spending, and other aspects of your cloud costs, automation can handle it for you. This further serves to make scaling much easier, as the manual workload doesn’t grow in response to increased cloud resource use.
Standardizing Reporting
Reporting serves to let you understand your cloud resource use and your budget. However, you can only make use of practical insights when reporting is handled the right way. Relying on manual data collection and report writing is a massive drain on your workforce and introduces the risk of human error and differences in formatting and style. Automation solves all of these problems.
Automated cloud report generation makes obtaining accurate, up-to-date information on your cloud resources and spending as easy as pushing a button. You’ll receive a complete overview of all resources and infrastructure, always presented in the same format. This lets your team intuitively understand changes over time, enabling the development of high-level strategy across your organization.
Ongoing Cloud Monitoring
Automation also serves to improve your cloud monitoring. Real-time monitoring is essential when it comes to maintaining cloud resources and preventing unexpected costs. There’s simply no way that your organization can rely on manual checks, as there are too many factors at play. Automated monitoring serves to enable more agile responses that help keep costs low.
With automated monitoring, your team can receive immediate insight into any developing situation. This extends from cost optimization to other vital areas, such as security. Your organization relies heavily on your cloud services, so real-time monitoring is essential.
Putting FinOps Automation to Work for Your Organization
Unlocking these benefits takes a careful approach with the right experience and tools. You can improve your FinOps with solutions and support from Sela. Our team provides versatile FinOps solutions that let you reduce costs while maintaining the cloud resources your organization needs to thrive.
Our solutions implement automation at critical points to ensure maximum impact. Cost optimization and analysis, reporting, and monitoring services improve your use of cloud resources on the fly while also providing key insights so that your organization can make the right decisions. You can get started with Sela today to see the impact that automation can have on your cloud costs.
Accessibility
